Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-04-29
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

gesser.
New Local,-Our Wealthy Men.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Spring fiaunts her banners in the AIR,
The bud is on the tree,
Where erst the earth was bleak ana pare,
The sprin4sag grass we see.
His sweetest note the blue-bird thrills,
To greet the rising sun.
The laughing brooks and ripping rills
Make music as they run.
The early flowers are springing where
The merry lambkin PLAYS;
The poorest of us now may wear
Our buttonhole bouquets.
Boston Courier.
Did YOU plant tree last Friday?
The scarlet fever epidemic at Porters'
vile is abating.
This is the month when your neighbors
chickens get too familiar with your garden.
-Presbytery met at Rev. Yates churcn In
Zelienople, on Tuesday of this week.
The frog pond at the junction of West
Pearl and Main streets still continues 10
flourish.
johnny Weiseman's troupe had large
audience here, and gave very good satlsisc-
ton. John is son of Cbas Welsman, tor-
merly of Butler, but now Of East Brady.
According to report, an old gentleman OF
Rruin can cure excessive bleedingat the nose
by simply commanding the patient to look
at him.
The new "Peace, Order aud Safety" Or
dinauce is very comprehensive. aud If prop.
erIy enforced will clear our streets OF loai-
ers-both by day and night.
The P. O. at Craigsville, Armstrong
county and also the stores Of w. Fl. Laird
and Mr. Zelickman, were burglarlzed last
Tuesday night.
The fall grain has ''picked up" amazing
" since the recent rains, and we are inform
ed that except in very low ground, the crop
will be an average one.
Mr.. James Borland purchased the old
Nathaniel Walker place at west end Oh MIL
fin street two years ago for 81 COO, ana since
that has sold lots from it to the value OF over
$1,000.
Some parties are supposed to be running
an illaga, distillery in the northwestern
part of Armstrong county, known as the
panhandle" and government ofhcers are
looking for it.
Pensions have lately been granted to the
following citizens of this county: Dorothea,
widow OF Adam j. Frishkorn, of Zelienople;
Jos. C. Hettriek, of Oakland; Thos. Ii.
Evans and Jonathan Kepple, of Millerstown.
The people of Harlansburg, Lawrence
county are raising money by subscription TO
erect an academy at that place. A meeting
koI1 I,xrth ha nifi q fpw nIpltS since
and another will be held next Saturday
night. Over $1,000 have already been raised
and the project is certainty.-Nec Custle
News.
The family, children and grandchildren
and qreat-prand children of Mr.. John Ponti-
GUS and wife, of Donegal township, gave
them a surprise party on the occasion OF the
anniversary of their fiftieth wedding day.
About fifty persons were present, the ola
couple received many presents and all had
good time. Mr.. Pontious is about 20 years
of age, and but four of those present were
over fifty.
The County Commissioners, according
to agreement, are putting Diamond Park in
the condition they found it when work on
the new Court House was begun. Phe Com
missioners have also put floors across the
Court House steeple above and below the
bell to throw out the souni aud protect the
clock.
We see it stated that the railroad build
ing contracts in this country let, this spring
will aggregate $60o00),0o0, and the house
building contracts let all over the country
will probably aggregate several times that
amount. In New York city alone the
amount is put at S23, 100000. A big Nation
must have houses to live in and the means
of getting around.
AT meeting of the Democratic County
Committee in Butler last Monday, Saturday,
June IL, was fixed as the date for their pri.
maries. and resolution was offered and
adopted that the Candidates have place on
their tickets to3- the party to vote for or
against nominating by the popular vote or
Crawford County system.
The Schmertzes, FL. s. Mckee and DR..
Chambers. all capitalists of Pittsburg, have
taken an interest in the Plate Glass works
here, more property has been purchased
and the plant will be doubled. which will
make it the largest plate glass works in
the world. The company is said to have
purchased the Vogel or old b. kost prop
erty.
The Butler CITIZEN appears in an en-.
Iarged form aud with new head, aud
shows corresponding improvements ic Its
weeks since came vigorously to the defense
of Noah, we felt sure it was the forerunner
of some progressive step, and now we have
the fruition. The granting of license in
Butler of course had nothing to do with
ft.-GrcenOHtc Neacs.
We dislike to oppose the proposition to
pension Supreme Court Judges; but If men
will get themselves elected to the Supreme
Court instead of starting country newspa-
per, the fault is their oga and they must
worry along on the salary attached to the
0fzcs. If they throw away an opportunity to
reyel ia untold wealth and accumulate mill
ions for their old age they have none but
themselves to blame, and ere not entitled to
State aid.
"A nav road bill introduced in the Legis-
iature provides for the creation OF the office
of county engineer, The business of the en-
pineer would be to supervise the road super
yisors On the greater part OF the country
roads an engineer ought TO be provided tor
every vehicle that is pulled oyer them. The
money that is annually squandered in this
commonwealth upon extra horsepower.
breakage, and wear and tsas OF property and
temper caused by bad roads, would pay 20
per cent. upon the cost of necessary repairs,
Erie Herald.
Our resders will find another name on
the Annor rneehsEt List this week; that OF
Capt. Ayres, of Mercer township, who is a
candidate for Register and Recorder. There
are ssns important State Offices to be filed
this Fall, aad though the date of the State
convention has not yet been fixed, delegates
to it must be elected at tho coming primaries,
for which as yet, no announcements have
been mede.-Since the above was put IN
type, Mr.. Thomas Hays has decided to be
candidate for Delegate, apd his name ap'
pears on the list.
The new time table on the p. & w. t
r. gives our psople five trains each way dal
ly between Butler aud Allegheny, and three
trains north and; also two trsins each way on
Sunday for Allegheny and one for the West
A synopsis Of the table will be found in an.
other place ia this paper. When this road
changes the times Of its trains there is al
ways a dearth for time tables, and on Mon
day of this week, everybody wishing to Use
the road was asking everybody else when
the trains left, and some of them had to go te
the depot to get the information they wanted
- the only time table in the town was the
one in use at the station.
There seems 10 be vast difference Of
opinion here regarding tbs Eil!ingsby bill.
On Tuesday the following, according 10 the
dispatches from Harrisburg, was recei we'd
there:
We, as producers of Butler, would respect.